I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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